dinner
Hallaca
Venezuela's Christmas treasure — corn dough filled with a rich stew of beef, pork, and chicken with olives, capers, and raisins, wrapped in banana leaves and steamed.
⏱ 240 min🔥 480 kcalHard
★4.9(890)
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Venezuelan Tomatoes Recipes
8 recipes using tomatoes — Pabellón criollo, arepas, hallacas — rich, corn-based comfort food.
These 8 venezuelan tomatoes recipes are ready in about 155 minutes on average, with 220–720 kcal per serving, and 13% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
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155 min
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500 kcal
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How Venezuelan cuisine cooks with tomatoes
Venezuelan cuisine — Pabellón criollo, arepas, hallacas — rich, corn-based comfort food — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Venezuelan cooks work with tomatoes, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, caramelising and frying.
Sweet-acidic fruit that forms the backbone of sauces, stews and salads across nearly every cuisine. In this collection it's most often cooked with onions, ground cumin, fresh cilantro, pork shoulder, green olives and capers. The dishes here span venezuelan classics ready in as little as 30 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Hallaca is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 890 ratings.
8 Venezuelan Tomatoes Recipes
dinner
Asado Negro
Venezuela's dramatic black roast beef — beef braised in a dark, glossy sauce of papelón (raw sugar), red wine, and vegetables until deeply caramelized and intensely flavored.
⏱ 170 min🔥 480 kcalHard
★4.9(780)
lunch
Pabellón Criollo (Venezuelan National Dish)
Venezuela's definitive national plate — white rice, black beans, shredded beef (carne mechada) and sweet fried plantain arranged together. The four elements represent Venezuela's racial and cultural heritage.
⏱ 110 min🔥 620 kcalMedium
★4.8(445)
dinner
Hallacas (Venezuelan Christmas Tamales)
Venezuela's most important dish — a complex Christmas tamale of seasoned corn dough filled with a rich beef, pork and chicken stew with olives, raisins and capers, wrapped in banana leaves and boiled. A labour of love and love made labour.
⏱ 210 min🔥 380 kcalHard
★4.9(267)
dinner
Pabellón Criollo
Venezuela's national dish — shredded beef, black beans, fried plantain and white rice on one plate.
⏱ 150 min🔥 620 kcalMedium
★4.9(867)
✨ Newdinner
Pabellón Criollo (Venezuelan National Plate)
A four-quadrant plate of slow-shredded beef in tomato sofrito, black beans, white rice and fried sweet plantains — the colours of the Venezuelan flag arranged on every Sunday table.
⏱ 180 min🔥 720 kcalMedium
★4.9(540)
✨ Newstarter
Ceviche Venezolano (Venezuelan Ceviche)
Venezuelan ceviche dressed with Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, and lime — bolder, saucier, and more cocktail-like than its Peruvian cousin.
⏱ 30 min🔥 220 kcalEasy
★4.7(378)
✨ Newsoup
Sancocho de Gallina (Venezuelan Hen Stew)
Venezuela's nourishing soul soup — a whole hen simmered with corn, plantain, yuca, and potato in a deeply aromatic herb broth.
⏱ 150 min🔥 480 kcalMedium
★4.9(720)
Choosing & preparing tomatoes
How to choose
Ripe tomatoes smell fragrant at the stem and give slightly to a gentle squeeze. For cooking out of season, good-quality tinned tomatoes often beat pale fresh ones.
Prep & storage
Store at room temperature, never the fridge, which kills their flavour and texture. Score and blanch to slip off skins; salting slices draws out excess water for salads.
Nutrition
A low-calorie source of vitamin C, potassium and the antioxidant lycopene — which actually becomes more available when tomatoes are cooked.
Classic flavour partners: basil, garlic, olive oil, mozzarella, onion, oregano
Venezuelan Tomatoes Recipes — FAQ
How long do Venezuelan tomatoes recipes take to make?
Most of these 8 Venezuelan tomatoes recipes are ready in around 155 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Ceviche Venezolano (Venezuelan Ceviche), takes about 30 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 240 minutes.
How many calories are in Venezuelan tomatoes dishes?
Across this collection they range from about 220 to 720 kcal per serving, averaging 500 kcal — Ceviche Venezolano (Venezuelan Ceviche) is the lightest option at 220 kcal.
What is the easiest Venezuelan tomatoes recipe for beginners?
Ceviche Venezolano (Venezuelan Ceviche) is a great place to start — it's rated easy and comes together in about 30 minutes. 13% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
What goes well with tomatoes in Venezuelan cooking?
In these recipes, tomatoes is most often paired with onions, ground cumin, fresh cilantro, pork shoulder, green olives and capers. Venezuelan kitchens also lean on its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends.
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